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Title: Cesarean Sections and Subsequent Fertility
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1. Norberg, Karen
Pantano, Juan
Cesarean Sections and Subsequent Fertility
Working Paper, Washington University in St. Louis, January 2013
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Washington University
Keyword(s): Birth Outcomes; Birth Rate; Births, Repeat / Spacing; Demographic and Health Surveys; Fertility; National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes

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Cesarean sections are rising all over the world and may, in some countries, soon become the most common delivery mode. A growing body of medical literature documents a robust fact: women undergoing cesarean sections end up having less children. While this medical literature conjectures that this is mostly due to a physiological channel, we adopt a more economic approach to guide our empirical examination of the link between c-sections and subsequent fertility. Exploiting several data sources and adopting a variety of empirical strategies we show that in addition to plausible biological constraints, maternal choices after a cesarean seem to be playing an important role in shaping the negative association between c-sections and subsequent fertility.
Bibliography Citation
Norberg, Karen and Juan Pantano. "Cesarean Sections and Subsequent Fertility." Working Paper, Washington University in St. Louis, January 2013.